Akustom kulture obsessed me more and more, in addition to watching my books of the publishing house Korero which deals with the subject as well as several magazines like Kustom. I become “crazy” because I really want to invest in this universe. An idea passes my mind! Quite simply, turn Ginger into a Bride (not Chucky 😉 but Frankenstein. The famous American film of James Whale released in 1935 with the emblematic Boris Karloff in Frankenstein and the wonderful Elsa Lanchester in the role of the Bride.

I find the idea funny and I start … I make a new draw, I exchange the brown of Ginger’s skin for a green and a nice blue for eyelids but still a bright red for his lips and small freckles. Her dress becomes a white bandage which also covers a large part of her arms.

I am amused to make two scars, one at the level of the neck and the other on the left shoulder. For the base, I add to the base of the plaster to simulate an irregular and muddy earth of a cemetery (to reinforce this effect, I pull a tombstone I cut in a plastic model element of the mark Revell).

To give an air even more glowering, I decide to make an arm that comes out of the ground, which I retrieve from another model. The whole is treated in gray because I want the result to be still very graphic. The glossy side of the paint reinforces the muddy side. I purposely dirty his boots by throwing a little paint at the same time. A final retouch in his hair with his emblematic white wick on each side, and the trick is played. Again, I personalize the box, with the same procedure as the Ginger “Al Caine”. The result is really cool. I’m on track

A day, I get a message from Al Sugar Cayne, a New York BMX champion (and who also carries a show in a car with guests to ask questions about their news) … New York, coooool!

He tells me he likes my Ginger figurine, coooool the contact goes well. Al Sugar hosts a blog on the BMX, Hip Hop, toy, fashion in New York plus his Bike Fest … he makes an article about Ginger on his blog. For the pleasure, I realize a small “Ginger” in his effigy. And then there comes to me an idea. I decide to go to the top speed, is to create my own figurine!

I start with my figure Ginger that I had already created (in small format). But I want to sublimate it, make it a true icon! I leave as usual the recovery equipment … part of the arms, one leg, a piece of polystyrene, all padded with Milliput, I embrace the same technique as the first time. I want it to be large and thin with a very graphic result … I opt for a size of 30 cm.

The result is up to my expectations. As, I want to achieve several, I engage in the manufacture of a silicone mold. On arrival, it will be between 8 and 9 kilos + a second mold for the arms. I buy a resin with two components, I make a first impression … the result is bluffing, I have THE figurine: MY creation …

An African-American bomb of all beauty. I hurry to paint … I choose precisely. My basic colors will be brown, black, white and a red lipstick (heart-shaped) and a slightly darker color to do red tasks under the eyes (this famous brand) because I find it terribly sexy. I add a pair of earrings that I choose from Drug Store. The top is that I can also customize his tee shirt. For Al, I make him the color of his Blog www.sugarcayne.com …

With an Ikea carton, I create the packaging of the box to configure it. With my good old A4 plotter, I cut the drawing I made from a picture taken of the figurine. I take a glossy black adhesive for the cut. The contrast with the carpet of the cardboard box gives a very good effect. I also have to create a signature and a small pictologo.

I do not know why, I choose a pig, maybe a nod to the music and songs of “Garçons Bouchers” a french punk group, I listened a lot and the black tee-shirt that I had with Many Hair Pig . I found in an old book Picto Corel, a pig with garlic that succeeded me right away. I just added a helmet to personalize it a bit, and the trick was played …

In full creation of figurines … the Hot Rod returns to my ears. In the 90’s, a friend of mine, Thierry, who wanted to make a tee-shirt after one of his works shows me his drawings of dingo on the Rod. But I do not hit right now.

Year 2000, madness takes me … the Kustom Kulture goes straight to the Heart. Big flashback. I decide to make a figure of a Hot Rod. I’ve never done Dunny of Kidrobot, it’s a chance. I take old models Revell and Heller that train, I buy some also.

The base is a Playmobil kart or I graft pieces of these models. The result is interesting but not enough to my taste. Finally this first test of Hot Rod will give me an idea for later … but most importantly: the fever of the Kustom Kulture will not leave me any more.

Fan of Comic book for a long time, I could not miss out on the achievement of a super hero! But which one? More to the universe of Marvel characters (like Silver Surfer, Galactus, Fantastic 4, Magneto and of course all Spiderman bad guys) than DC, I opt for a DC comics character.

It will be Batman … classic you will say and you are right. And yet, I prefer the bad guys, the realization of a Joker would have seemed more just. But I do not say my last word on it.

I really do not like things smooth. I need a Batman not very clean. This character has been realized several times in its modern version (black suit) with very beautiful achievements. Again, I speak from a Munny of Kidrobot.

I decide to make the 1966 Batman made famous in the guise of Adam West (purple and gray suit). But I said, not very clean. So my Batman will bite into the crate and after a memorable bake, he will vomit on it. I make fake dollars scattered ashore and would wink at Jack Daniels (in a bottle like old school adulterated alcohol) …

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Hello, my name is Barratatouille. I live in France. I'm a graphic designer, fashion designer, chocolate designer. But I created this blog to show you mostly my work of designer toys through my achievements.